Main Idea: We are called to faithfully endure according to God’s Word.

7 “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.

Endure, According to God’s Word, In the Face of Weakness and Opposition

• 8 “‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.
  • Revelation 1:18
  • Isaiah 22:22
  • Matthew 16:19
• 9 Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.
  • Isaiah 49:22, 23

Endure, According to God’s Word, Through Tribulation Until the End

• 10, 11 Because you have kept my word about patient endurance, I will keep you from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, to try those who dwell on the earth. I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.
  • Revelation 6:10; 8:13; 13:7, 8, 13, 14
  • Daniel 12:1
  • Exodus 8:22, 23

Endure, According to God’s Word, to Become the Dwelling Place of God

• 12, 13  The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’
  • Isaiah 56:3–5
  • Isaiah 62:1, 2

So What?

• The Lord gives His church the strength we need to endure in faith.
  • Romans 5:1–5